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EDUCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

B.A.<\/strong>-Religion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1971 Barnard College, New York, New York<\/p>\n

Rabbi<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a01976 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College<\/p>\n

Ph.D. <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1978 Department of Religion Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Jewish Science to Pastoral Counseling: The Development of the Concept of Healing in the American Reform Rabbinate 1922-1950<\/em>. January 1978. Dr. Franklin Littell<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies (<\/em>Columbia University Press, 2015)<\/p>\n

Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2011) Robert Peterson Award for Best Book in Negro League History, Jerry Malloy Conference, 2011<\/p>\n

Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 1997) 1998 Lambda Literary Award and 1999Award for Scholarship from the Jewish Women’s Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology<\/p>\n

Voices of the Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook<\/em> editor (Temple University Press, 2000)<\/p>\n

Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation<\/em> editor, with Sue Elwell and Shirley Idelson,(Rutgers University Press, 2001) 2002 Finalist for Lambda Literary Award<\/p>\n

and Laura Levitt, guest editors, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal<\/em> 14:1 Jewish Feminists and Our Fathers<\/em> (Spring 2009)<\/p>\n

and Arthur Remillard, Gods<\/em>, Games and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sport<\/em> (Mercer University Press, 2019)<\/p>\n

Research articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book chapters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“Joshua Loth Liebman:\u00a0 The Peace of Mind Rabbi” in Faith and Freedom: Essays in Honor of Franklin Littell<\/em>, ed. R. Libowitz\u00a0 (Pergamon Press, 1987) 177-192<\/p>\n

“In God’s Image: Coming to Terms with Leviticus” in Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish<\/em>. ed. C.Balka and A. Rose. (Beacon Press, 1989) 61-70 reprinted in Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society and Politics<\/em>. Ed. Larry Gross and James Woods. (Columbia University Press, 1999) 147-152.<\/p>\n

“The Quest for Economic Justice: Kaplan’s Response to the Challenge of Communism 1929-1940” in The American Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan<\/em>\u00a0 ed. M. Scult, E. Goldsmith and R. Seltzer (New York University Press, 1990) 385-400<\/p>\n

“Challenging Male\/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition” in People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective<\/em> ed. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (SUNY Press, 1992) 361-378<\/p>\n

and Goldie Milgram \u201cWomen in the Reconstructionist Rabbinate\u201d in Religious Institutions and Women’s Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream<\/em> ed. Catherine Wessinger (University of South Carolina Press, 1996) 291-310<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother Perspective on Theological Directions\u201d in Contemporary Religious Thought: A Reader<\/em> ed. Elliot Dorff and Louis Newman (Oxford University Press, 1998) 494-497<\/p>\n

\u201cReligious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage and the Case of Reconstructionist Judaism\u201d in God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life <\/em>ed. Kathleen Sands (Oxford University Press, 2000) 124-132. Reprinted in The Reconstructionist: A Journal of Contemporary Jewish Thought and Practice<\/em>68\/1 (Fall 2003) 33-42<\/p>\n

\u201cGuilty Pleasures: When Sex Is Good Because It\u2019s Bad\u201d in Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions<\/em>, ed. Hunt, Balakrishan and Jung (Rutgers University Press, 2001) 31-43. Republished in Sexuality and the Sacred<\/em> 2nd<\/sup> ed., ed. Marvin Ellison and Kelly Brown Douglas (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 292-302.<\/p>\n

“On Being a Rabbi at the Margins” in Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation<\/em>, ed. Alpert, Elwell, Idelson (Rutgers University Press, 2001) 173-180<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction: Why a Book on Lesbian Rabbis?\u201d with Sue Elwell in Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation<\/em>, ed. Alpert, Elwell, Idelson (Rutgers University Press, 2001) 1-36<\/p>\n

“Sex in Jewish Law and Culture” in Sexuality in the World’s Religions<\/em> eds. David Machacek and Melissa Wilcox, (ABC-CLIO, 2003) 179-202<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is a Jewish Baseball Player?\u201d in The Proceedings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2003-2004<\/em>, ed. Bill Simons (McFarland and Company Publishers, 2005) 95-106<\/p>\n

\u201cBaseball Across the Generations in Jewish American Writing\u201d in What is Jewish About America’s “Favorite Pastime”? Essays and Sermons on Jews, Judaism and Baseball<\/em> eds. Marc Lee Raphael and Judith I. Abrams (College of William and Mary Press, 2006) 35-45<\/p>\n

“Commentary on Exodus” in The Queer Bible Commentary<\/em>, ed. Robert Goss, Deryn Guest, Mona West, and Thomas Bohache (SCM Press, London, 2006) 61-76<\/p>\n

\u201cSame Sex Marriage and Reconstructionist Judaism\u201d for Our Family Values: Same-sex Marriage and Religion<\/em> ed. Traci West (Praeger, 2006) 239-252<\/p>\n

\u201cSolitary Sex\u201d in The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism<\/em> ed. Danya Ruttenberg, (NYU Press, 2009)<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction:Jewish Feminists and Our Fathers\u201d with Laura Levitt, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal<\/em> 14:1 (Spring 2009) 1-9<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Irving and Avi, But Mostly For Me\u201d Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal<\/em> 14:1 (Spring 2009) 57-62<\/p>\n

\u201cGrief and the Rituals Surrounding Death: A Jewish Approach\u201d in Religion, Death and Dying: Bereavement and Death Rituals<\/em> volume 3, ed. Lucy Bregman (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2010), 25-40<\/p>\n

\u201cTranslating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and His Critics\u201d Re-Presenting Texts: Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation<\/i>. David Nelson and Rivkah Ulmer, eds. (Gorgias Press 2013) 39-52<\/p>\n

\u201cBaseball Since 1920\u201d entry for the A Companion to American Sport History<\/i>, ed. Steven Riess (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) 177-201<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity through Sport\u201d Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas<\/i> Edited by Raanan Rein and David Sheinin (Brill Series on Jewish Latin America, 2014) 102-120<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cWhat Is a Jew? The Meaning of Genetic Disease for Jewish Identity\u201d in Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought <\/i>ed. Elliot Dorff and Laurie Zoloth (Jewish Publication Society\/University of Nebraska, Spring 2015)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cPrepositional Theology\u201d in Imagining the Jewish God <\/i>Edited by Len Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm (Lexington Press, 2016) 293-297<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion and Sport in Philadelphia\u201d in Religion in Philadelphia Reader<\/em>, ed. Elizabeth Alvarez (Temple University Press, 2016) 227-233<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Queer or Not to Queer: Marriage Vows in Jewish Same-sex Ceremonies\u201d [\u201cMariage juif et kidouchin<\/em>: des c\u00e9r\u00e9monies queer<\/em> ou \u00e9galitaires?\u201d] in Homosexualit\u00e9 et traditions monoth\u00e9istes: Vers la fin d\u2019un antagonism?<\/em> Ed. R\u00e9my Bethmont et Martine Gross (Les Editions Labor et Fides, 2017) 335-350<\/p>\n

and Jacob Staub, \u201cThe Making of Gay and Lesbian Rabbis in Reconstructionist Judaism 1979-1992\u201d in Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth Century United States<\/em> Edited by Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton and Heather White (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) 214-233<\/p>\n

\u201cA Christian Concerned for Israel: The Zionism of Franklin Littell\u201d in The Profound Impact of an Impassioned Plea: Franklin H. Littell\u2019s <\/em>The Crucifixion of the Jews, <\/em>Edited by David Patterson (Paragon House, 2018) 177-186<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is the Prophet? Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Integration of Baseball\u201d The Prophetic Dimension of Sport<\/em> Edited by Terry Shoemaker (Springer International, 2019) 15-24<\/p>\n

Peer reviewed journal articles<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Sometimes the Law is Cruel\u2019: the Construction of a Jewish Anti-Abortion Position in the Writings of Immanuel Jakobovits\u201d in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion<\/em> (Fall 1995) 27-38<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Seams and Seamlessness\u201d in Judaism Since Gender<\/em> ed. Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz (Routledge, 1996) reprinted from Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies<\/em> (Fall 1995) 88-92<\/p>\n

\u201cFaith Based on What: A Round Table Discussion\u201d edited with Janet Jakobsen, Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em> 70\/4 (December 2002) 819-821<\/p>\n

\u201cCelebrating Judith Plaskow\u2019s Work\u201d Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion<\/em> 23:1 (Spring 2007) 2-10<\/p>\n

\u201cJackie Robinson as a Jewish Icon\u201d Shofar: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies<\/em>26:2 (Winter 2008) 42-59<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Religion in Philadelphia\u2019 for General Education\u201d Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy<\/em>\u00a025:1 (2014) 41-45<\/p>\n

\u201cTiby Eisen: An Oral History\u201d \u00a0NINE:\u00a0 A Journal of Baseball History and Culture<\/i> 22:2 Spring 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrican-American Attitudes towards Jews in the \u2018Negro Leagues\u2019: The Case of Effa Manley\u201d in Annual Review\u00a0of the\u00a0USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in America Life<\/i> volume 12 Edited by Ari F. Sclar<\/p>\n

\u201cSports\u201d in Shifter 22:<\/em> Dictionary of the Possible<\/em> (2016) 160-162<\/p>\n

\u201cEating My Way Through Transparent<\/em>\u201d in Tastes of Faith: Jewish Eating in the United States<\/em>, Annual Review\u00a0of the\u00a0USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in America Life<\/em> volume 15 (2017) Edited by Leah Hochman (Purdue University Press) 131-145<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial Justice, Sport and Judaism: A Position Statement\u201d Quest<\/em> Journal Special Issue 71:2 (2019) 138-149 also published as a book chapter in Social Justice and Sport in the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em>: <\/strong>Religious, Sociological and Capability Perspectives<\/em>, ed. Nick Watson (London: Routledge, 2019).<\/p>\n

\u201cBabe Ruth: Religious Icon\u201d (for Religions<\/em>, Special Issue 2019) 10, 337; doi:10.3390\/rel10050337<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Does Genuine Transformation Look Like? Emphasizing the \u2018E\u2019 in DEI\u201d Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion<\/em> 38:1 (Spring 2022) 31-34<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Other works:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sotah: Rabbinic Attitudes and the Adulterous Wife” in Jewish Civilization:\u00a0 Essays and Studies<\/em> vol. 2\u00a0 (Reconstructionist Press, 1981)\u00a0 33-41<\/p>\n

“More Light on God and Feminism” Menorah<\/em> (May-June 1982) 7<\/p>\n

“The Reconstructionist Approach to Prayer: Some Questions and Answers” Response Magazine<\/em>\u00a0 (Fall-Winter 1982) 127-131<\/p>\n

and S. Lammers\u00a0 Teaching Medical Ethics to Theological Students:\u00a0 A Syllabus and Teacher’s Guide<\/em>\u00a0(Reconstructionist Press, 1983)<\/p>\n

“Jewish Tradition and the Right to Health Care” Reconstructionist<\/em> (April-May 1984) 15-20<\/p>\n

“A Defense of Kaplan’s Doctrine of Vocation” Reconstructionist<\/em> (September 1984) 25-28<\/p>\n

“The Feminism Within Passover” Menorah<\/em> (March-April 1984) 3-4<\/p>\n

“Sisterhood is Ecumenical: Bridging the Gap between Jewish and Christian Feminists” Response Magazine<\/em> (Spring, 1984)\u00a0 3-16<\/p>\n

“Ethical Decision Making: A Reconstructionist Framework” Reconstructionist\u00a0 <\/em>(June 1985) 15-20<\/p>\n

and J. Staub\u00a0 Exploring Judaism:\u00a0 A Reconstructionist Approach<\/em>\u00a0 (Reconstructionist Press, 1985, rev.ed. 2000)<\/p>\n

and A. Waskow\u00a0 “Toward an Ethical Kashrut”\u00a0 Reconstructionist<\/em>\u00a0 (March 1987)<\/p>\n

“Tzipporah:\u00a0 Flight of the Bird Woman” Reconstructionist <\/em>\u00a0(Jan.-Feb. 1988) 24-27<\/p>\n

“A Feminist Takes Stock of Reconstructionism” Reconstructionist<\/em> (July-August 1989) 17-22<\/p>\n

“Old and New Means to Insight” Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility<\/em> (December 1990) 25<\/p>\n

“Our Lives Are the Text: Exploring Jewish Women’s Spirituality” Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists<\/em> (Spring, 1991) 66-80<\/p>\n

“What Gender is God?” Reform Judaism<\/em> (Winter 1991) 28-29<\/p>\n

“Jews, Class and Education” Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists<\/em> (Spring 1992)<\/p>\n

and J. Schein\u00a0 Lifelong Jewish Learning: Philosophy, Process and Program<\/em> (Reconstructionist Press, 1992)<\/p>\n

“Whither Thou Goest: New Perspectives on Ruth 1:16” in Reading Ruth<\/em> ed. Gail Reimer and Judith Kates (Ballantine Books, 1994)<\/p>\n

“Coming Out in the Jewish Community” in Jewish Women’s Life Cycles<\/em> ed. Debra Orenstein (Jewish Lights Press, 1994)<\/p>\n

“If Not Now, When? A Jewish Delegation in Haiti” Bridges<\/em> (1994) 89-96<\/p>\n

“Kaplan\u2019s Challenge to Us: A Vision of Social Justice” Reconstructionist<\/em> (Fall 1995) 41-46<\/p>\n

\u201cComing Out of the Closet as Politically Correct\u201d Tikkun <\/em>(March 1996) 61-63<\/p>\n

“The Power of Words” in Lifecycles 2<\/em> ed. D. Orenstein and J. Litman (Jewish Lights Press, 1997)<\/p>\n

“If We Are Not For Ourselves” Conscience<\/em> (Spring 1997) 15-18<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Confronting Mortality, Facing Grief: Jewish Perspectives on Death And Mourning (A Study Guide)<\/em> (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, 1997)<\/p>\n

The Life and Thought of Tehilla Lichtenstein<\/em> [monograph] (Jewish Science Publications, 1997)<\/p>\n

\u201cSymposium on The Book of Blessings<\/em> by Marcia Falk\u201d in Reconstructionist <\/em>(Spring-Fall 1997) 77-80<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Process of Coming Out\u201d in From Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them<\/em> ed. Roberta Showalter Kreider (Chi Rho Press, 1998) 124-127<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Politics of Spirituality\u201d in Tikkun <\/em>(September\/October 1998) 46<\/p>\n

“On Being a Rabbi at the Margins” Reconstructionist <\/em>(Fall 1999) 54-59<\/p>\n

“Wholeness and Difference: Living in Two Civilizations” Reconstructionism Today<\/em> (Spring 2000) 14-15<\/p>\n

\u201cDo Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Reflections on Micah and Gay Ethics\u201d in Take Back the Word: Queer Texts, Queer Readers <\/em>eds. Mona West and Robert Goss (Pilgrim Press, 2000) 170-182<\/p>\n

“Parshat Shmot: Rediscovering Tziporah” in A Women’s Torah Commentary: 54 Women Rabbis on the Weekly Torah Portions<\/em> ed. Elyse Goldstein (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000) 121-126<\/p>\n

“New Jewish Approaches to Homosexuality” Swig Lecture, Judaic Studies Department, University of San Francisco at California (Swig Jewish Studies Program, 2002) 27-30<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching Judaism in Indonesia: Some Reflections\u201d Reconstructionist<\/em> (Fall 2002) 4-9<\/p>\n

“Commentary on Kaddish” in Pray Tell: A Hadassah Guide to Jewish Prayer<\/em>, ed. Carol Diament, (Woodstock, Vt: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003) 190<\/p>\n

“The Table is Set” in The Women’s Seder Sourcebook<\/em>, ed. Tara Mohr, (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003) 184-5<\/p>\n

\u201cJewish Approaches to Death and Dying\u201d in Death and Dying in World Religions<\/em> ed. Lucy Bregman (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004) 33-44<\/p>\n

A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z<\/em> (contributing writer) ed. Mary Hunt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)<\/p>\n

\u201cSymposium on Interfaith Relations\u201d in RRA Connections<\/em> 4<\/p>\n

\u201cExploring Judaism, Finding Reconstructionism\u201d with Jacob Staub Reconstructionist<\/em> (Fall 2005) 70:1, 15-21<\/p>\n

\u201cDialogue on Feminism and Activism\u201d with Danya Ruttenberg in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice<\/em> ed. \u00a0Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein (Jewish Lights Press, 2007) 206-214<\/p>\n

“Jewish Identity and Jewish Genetic Diseases” The Reconstructionist<\/em> 7:2 (Spring 2007) 69-84<\/p>\n

Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism<\/em> (New Press, 2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cTransformative Teaching Practices\u201d on The Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. Website http:\/\/www.fsrinc.org\/fir\/Alpert.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLynn\u2019s Tattoo\u201d in Jewish Choices\/Jewish Voices: The Body<\/em>, ed. Louis Newman and Elliott Dorff, Jewish Publication Society (March 2008) 99-106<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Work of the Scholar\/Activist Teacher\u201d edited with Traci West in Religious Studies News<\/em> 23:4 (October 2008) 25-26<\/p>\n

\u201cQueer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute\u201d Religion Dispatches, September 4, 2010 online at http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/guest_bloggers\/3270\/queer_religion_and_community_at_hrc_summer_institute<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWill You Marry Me? A Lesbian Rabbi\u2019s First Amendment Quandry\u201d States of Devotion, April 2011 at http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/devotion\/2011\/04\/will-you-marry-me-a-lesbian-rabbis-first-amendment-quandry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA Reason to Vote Along Racial Lines\u201d Oxford University Press weblog, May 2011 http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2011\/05\/allstar-game\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“Is God Male?.” World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy<\/em>. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 28 July 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cJews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair\u201d Religion Dispatches, August 11, 2011.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/books\/culture\/4927\/jews_and_baseball%3A_a_reflection_on_a_longtime_love_affair\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe King of Showmen\u201d Oxford University Press weblog, August 2011<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2011\/08\/goose\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cElliott Maddox\u201d Oral History for Jewish Voices of American Baseball<\/em> ed. Peter Ephross (McFarland Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

\u201cJackie Robinson and The Jews\u201d in The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Dodgers<\/em>, ed. Lyle Spatz (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

\u201cBuster Haywood and the Jews of Black Baseball\u201d Jews in the Gym: Proceedings of the Klutznick Symposium<\/em> (Purdue University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching Religion in Philadelphia\u201d\u00a0<\/span>AJS Perspectives\u00a0<\/em>(Fall 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMicah and Gay Ethics\u201d in\u00a0<\/span>Global Perspectives on the Bible<\/em>, ed. Mark Roncace and Joe Weaver (Prentice-Hall, 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSlice of Bread for LGBT Jews and All the Excluded\u201d Jewish Daily Forward, March 22, 2013, http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/172960\/slice-of-bread-for-lgbt-jews-and-all-the-excluded\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHarry Passon\u2019s Contributions to Black Baseball in Philadelphia\u201d in Chasing Dreams:\u00a0 Baseball and Becoming American Exhibition Catalogue<\/i>, ed. Josh Perelman (National Museum of American Jewish History, 2014) 144-147.<\/p>\n

\u201cTesting the Limits of Academic Freedom\u201d https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2022\/04\/13\/testing-the-limits-of-academic-freedom\/<\/a> (April 2022)<\/p>\n

\u201cReconstructionism Without Zionism\u201d https:\/\/evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org\/reconstructionism-without-zionism\/<\/a> (June 2022)<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding Reciprocity and Compassion\u201d Temple Faculty Herald<\/em> (June 2022) 15 https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/facultyherald\/2022\/06\/23\/finding-reciprocity-and-compassion\/<\/a><\/p>\n

W<\/strong>ORKS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION\/RESEA<\/strong>RCH IN PROGRESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJewish Feminism and the UN Decade for Women Conferences (1975-1985)\u201d<\/p>\n

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, Commissioner, (2008-<\/p>\n

American Academy of Religion 1976-<\/p>\n

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association 1977-<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Board of Rabbis 1978-<\/p>\n

National Women’s Studies Association 1992-2002<\/p>\n

Society of American Baseball Research 2003-<\/p>\n

Association of Jewish Studies 2003-<\/p>\n

Society of Jewish Ethics 2002-<\/p>\n

AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shulamit Magnus Award, 1993, Jewish Women’s Studies Project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College<\/p>\n

Outstanding Contribution to the LGBT Jewish Community, Congregation Beth Ahava, 2000<\/p>\n

Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001, ATTIC, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University<\/p>\n

Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, 2001, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College<\/p>\n

Doctor of Humane Letters, 2005, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College<\/p>\n

Rabbi Ira Eisenstein Award, 2008, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association<\/p>\n

Prophetic Voices Award, 2008, Shalom Center<\/p>\n

Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013, Temple University<\/p>\n

Stauffer Service Award, 2013, Temple University<\/p>\n

Great Teacher Award, 2016, Temple University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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